Our goal is to help you find the apartment that best fits your needs. Renters simply have so many differing priorities – and budget constraints – that singling out an overall best building would be a pointless exercise, so we’re spotlighting the best choices on 18 different criteria.

One-bedroom apartments are the most numerous type in virtually every major apartment building, so you can expect the category to be highly competitive. One of the ways in which some of the newer buildings have remained price-competitive with older ones is by shrinking the square footage of one-bedroom floor plans, often resulting in smaller bedrooms and limited closet space.

Our award for the best layouts in the one-bedroom category goes to Presidential Towers. Its one-bedroom plans typically have larger-than-average bedrooms, much better-than-average closet space, and spaces that lend themselves to flexible furniture groupings.